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Dr Xavier Jaravel.

Dr Xavier Jaravel

Associate

Expertise: labour, innovation

Telephone:
020 7955 6698
Email:
x.jaravel@lse.ac.uk
Room:
32L 3.14
Connect:
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Website
Links:
CEP Growth
CEP Labour Markets
CEP Trade

Biography

Xavier Jaravel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, where he teaches public economics and how to use micro data and methods to answer macro questions. His research focuses on innovation and productivity, with related work on trade and applied econometrics. He is also a member of the French Council of Economic Analysis, a non-partisan body which advises the Prime Minister, and the 2019 recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize

Current areas of research include:

  • The distributional effects of housing inflation

Publications

Blog
Trade with China benefited US consumers

International trade is widely viewed as creating winners and losers in an economy. Influential work has documented that US labour markets were heavily disrupted by the surge of imports following China’s joining the World... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager

20 August 2019

CEP discussion papers
What are the price effects of trade? Evidence from the US and implications for quantitative trade models

This paper finds that U.S. consumer prices fell substantially due to increased trade with China. With comprehensive price micro-data and two complementary identification strategies, we estimate that a 1pp increase in imp... Read more...

Xavier Jaravel and Erick Sager

08 August 2019

Journal article
Joseph Schumpeter Lecture, EEA Annual Congress 2017: Do Tax Cuts Produce more Einsteins? The Impacts of Financial Incentives VerSus Exposure to Innovation on the Supply of Inventors

Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursu... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

01 June 2019

CEP discussion papers
Do tax cuts produce more Einsteins? The impacts of financial incentives vs. exposure to innovation on the supply of inventors

Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursu... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

24 January 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
Lost Einsteins: who becomes an inventor in America?

Who are America’s most successful inventors – and what can we learn from their experiences in designing policies to stimulate innovation? To answer these questions, former CEP director John Van Reenen and his colleagues ... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

01 March 2018

CEP discussion papers
Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation

We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in America by using de-identified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records. We establish three sets of results. First, chi... Read more...

Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova and John Van Reenen

11 December 2017

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